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Pub. Date
2014.
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"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Jennifer and Meg Swift are sisters who couldn't be closer despite living hours apart. Jennifer is in Salt Lake City, running a successful restaurant she started with her late husband and raising her teenage son Simon. Meg stayed in their hometown of Hazelwood, helping their parents run the local bakery. This Christmas is the family's first since the passing of Uncle Dave who owned the town's beloved theater, The Madison, where many memories were made...
9985) Love struck cafe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Megan Quinn, an aspiring architect, faces multiple tasks, developing her hometown lake into a commercialized entertainment center, forcing Mrs. Frances Figgins, her childhood mentor, out of her family's home, and helping out at her family caf ̌after her father breaks his leg, all while also dealing with the return of her childhood sweetheart, Joe, who broke her heart.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"The opportunity to be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and pricelss jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her, and leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she begins to realize that the life...
9987) Always my girl
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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Quinn Shaughnessy's two older brothers have found their true loves... but Quinn's not about to join that parade. Nope, as he tells his best friend Anna, there's a lot more to life than getting tied down to one person. He's positive tomboy Anna will be on his side -- except she's inexplicably developing other interests -- even dating! Suddenly Quinn is seeing Anna in a very different light. Quinn has been Anna's buddy since they were both five years...
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2016.
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"Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until the seventeen-year-old Polina arrives at the hospital....
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2012.
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The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting for the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Set during...
9990) Ai yori aoshi: Volume 10
Author
Series
Ai yori aoshi volume 10
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Kaoru invites Aoi to join him for two nights at a posh hotel so they can have a romantic weekend, but Kaoru must face his past when things don't go as planned and he ends up feeling depressed.
9991) Love at sea
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Event planner Olivia gets a game-changing opportunity to organize a major event on a luxury Caribbean cruise, hosted by her best friend, cooking and wellness star, Alexandra. Olivia meets her match in the charming Tony, who is on a trial run as Cruise Director, but they must work together to make the cruise go off without a hitch, for the sake of their careers and friendships.
9992) As You Like It
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the Shakespearean play "As you like it" in which Rosalind, banished to the Forest of Arden and disguised as a boy, reunites with her true love, Orlando.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Helen, he heads north to investigate the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government. While John is accompanying a crew on a bombing run, his plane is shot down over the island of Attu. He survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving...
9996) Ai yori aoshi: Volume 2
Author
Series
Ai yori aoshi volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Kaoru and Aoi's relationship, already strained due to her guardian's attempts to keep them apart, is further tested when the exuberant American Tina, an old classmate of Kaoru's, decides to rent the spare room in his cottage. Contains adult content.
9997) A very merry mix-up
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Shop owner Alice Chapman is nervous to meet her future in-laws at Christmas, especially because she is arriving ahead of her new fiance, Will Mitchum. Alice's trip becomes more stressful when her luggage is lost and her phone is damaged, leaving her no way to find Will's family! As fate would have it, she meets her future brother-in-law, Matt Mitchum, at baggage claim and is happy to get a ride home with him.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Woman Authors
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A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...